ATHENS OPEN ART 5 T H
N O V E M B E R
GALLERY
SNEHTA
NODNOL EXHIBITIONS
INDEX
1. LOTTA SCHIMANKE 2. EKATERINA KOZLOVA 3. GHALIA ALAMI 4. TINA FLOREZ 5. ALIKI IOANNOU & JO KASFIKI 6. GEORGE TOMA 7. KATERINA GENOUZOU 8. DIMITRIS TSIRIGOTIS 9. MANOS KALLIMIKRAKIS 10. ZENO SPYROPOULOS 11. TZORTZOS STEFANOS 12. MAVROFRIDI ALEXANDRA
LOTTA SCHIMANKE IG: @schlott.art
Displaying. Visualizing. Breaking taboos. Creating a comfort zone. And leaving it. That is Lotta Schimanke's definition of art. A creation and expression of her wish for diversity and representation. Lotta is a queer feminist who grew up in a patriarchal society in which politics and social media are stigmatizing and exploiting bodies. It was only a matter of time until she became active. After graduating school, she decided to study in the social sector. Lotta's work life is people-oriented. Her art is too. Her topics often revolve around human bodies. Some of her series are about normalizing different body(parts), that are not represented enough. Vulnarability is a keyword in her works. The last months Lotta was working on some photo projects, which are her favorite medium. But she doesn't want to reduce herself to that. She loves trying different techniques and art forms. The ideology in Lotta's works stays the same, but her way of showing it changes.
EKATERINA KOZLOVA IG: @asynion_photo
Photographer Ekaterina Kozlova is an artist and psychologist by training. A feminist and body positive person, it is important for her to support the LGBTQ + community and show a healthy expression of sexuality in her work. She does not consider the body a "commodity" and opposes the condemnation of those who do not fit into the classical standards of beauty. People can be anything, their inalienable right is to be who they want and who they feel comfortable being. She works with the human body primarily as a material from which she can mold what she needs.
GHALIA ALAMI IG: @alamighalia
Ghalia Alami is a documentary and fashion photographer who lives between Paris & Casablanca. She quit a business consulting career to focus on developing herself as a visual storyteller. She is now working with commercial clients as well as on personal themes that explore the intersection between the eternal and the passing, seeking to create imageries that evoke dateless nostalgia..
TINA FLOREZ IG: @tinafl0res
Tina Flores is a non-binary photographer from Colombia, migrating to Europe since four years. Their work is a personal expression of who they are, their history and the communties that they is part of. Through photography and fashion they want to create an emotional aesthetic experience that represents communities that are often marginalised disrupting the status quo; exploring identity and gender, migration and narratives, support networks, FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE. They capture the intimate relationship of intersectional identities who come together as migrants in country foreign to us who often do not fit in back home and also to western conventions.
ALIKI IOANNOU & JO KASFIKI IG: @_tendertouch_ Aliki Ioannou and Jo Kasfiki are business students with an interest in art, experimenting with a camera. Their creative work gains inspiration from human imperfections and natural elements. Captured and created in Athens, Greece in September 2021, this project observes the shapes of the human body and presents its uniqueness as the highest form of beauty. The artworks are also available as NFTs. Check out the website and Instagram account and let them know what you think!
GEORGE TOMA IG: @george.toma
Originally from Campina, Romania, George first discovered his interest in photography at the age of 16, capturing whatever came to his attention with his father’s old camera. Soon enough, a profound passion was discovered, that led him to focus the lenses on landscape, portrait and fine art photography. From somber urban street shots to inspiringly colorful landscapes, George aims at exploiting the environment and its fine details to tell unspoken stories about the essence of human experience and existence, whether in his travels around the globe, in his hometown or his own living room.
KATERINA GENOUZOU IG: @hhaibe
Katerina Genouzou was always inspired by Studio Ghibli on how they showcased the world and wanted to depict what she thought was beautiful likewise, so when she was given the opportunity to shoot with a film camera, she could finally shape her vision. She's also always loved photographing people in daily life and capturing the emotions during that moment, aside from her landscape work.
DIMITRIS TSIRIGOTIS IG: @dimitris_tsirigotis_ Fine art Photographer Born and raised in Athens Greece, Dimitris Tsirigotis spent many years in the island of Milos. Being influenced by various photographers of different eras helps him fuse old and new elements together, in order to create a unigue style in his work. Free-spirited and openminded, considers his images his own creations, where he seeks to imprint a specific vision of the subjects he picks. Whether thats a landscape or a random person on the street, the effort to express the darker side of his themes will never cease to fascinate him. His artwork have been exhibit in galleries in Florence, Como, Milan, Athens, San Francisco and several of his photos have been chosen and published by media and magazines all over the world.
MANOS KALLIMIKRAKIS IG: @manoskallimikrakis
Manos Kallimikrakis is a photographer whose work emphasizes aesthetics. Inspired by cinematography, fashion and high culture his influences incorporate various art currents, from ancient art to film noir. He loves black and white photography as he considers it timeless. He likes to educate and enrich his tastes by travelling around the world. He studied journalism & mass media but life drew him elsewhere. Worked in high fashion for several years and it was not until recently that he decided to practice photography systematically, a lightbender as he likes to call himself. His favorite photographers are Helmut Newton and Paolo Roversi and he always finds himself inspired by Christopher Nolan. In his most recent work in progress “DonnaDivinaDomina” he explores the divine feminine. Striving to reach the feminine elements of divinity, he explores and exposes the divine spark in every feminine. Even though ageless and omnipresent, female divinity appears today shuttered and broken. Nonetheless it gives us hope for esoteric fulfillment and union in a binary and imbalanced society.
ZENO SPYROPOULOS IG: @zenosp
Using an analogue point-and-shoot camera, Zeno flits between his subjects with an unobtrusive lens, capturing spontaneous instances of tenderness, ecstasy or calm. Showing raw moments of intimacy, and creative or sexual expression as they naturally occur, his pictures normalise a culture of sexual and bodily freedom. Although extremes form a backdrop to his story, they are not its focus. His focus is its people, and their visceral connection with one another; sometimes communicated physically through bodies intimately entangled, at other times through more subtle gestures.
TZORTZOS STEFANOS IG: @itsstefantzor
Stefanos Tzortzos is twenty years old and is studying interior design. At the age of fourteen, one day randomly he saw a YouTube video of Peter McKinnon, from that day he started to experimenting with photography. At the begging he was taking pictures with his mobile phone, but from the day he picked up his first camera everything changed. He had so many possibilities and he wanted to express himself through photography. So today he photographs according to his emotional state at the moment and tries through the photos to convey what he feels. He is influenced by Peter McKinnon, Ross Halfin, Laurent Kronentual, Peter Lick and Annie Leibovitz.
MAVROFRIDI ALEXANDRA IG: @alexandra.mavrofridi
Alexandra Mavrofridi is an artist whose main purpose is to create myths and symbols with the aim of producing active art that brings different worlds into contact with one another. She has studied Plastic Arts & Sciences of Arts at the University of Ioannina and afterwards she studied Photography & Audiovisual Arts at the University of West Attica. Her aesthetic is based on a tragicomical reality, that is not visible to the human eye. Guided by intuition, the biggest challenge is an effort to produce a protean and escalated body of work that portrays a veritable universe, which lies around the subconscious. Last year, she participated at the 16th Athens Digital Arts Festival in Greece and this year she participates at an international art exhibition: Tides of The Century at the Ocean Flower Island Museum in China.
ATHENS OPEN ART 5th November